With the end of the year in sight, the great list-making time has come upon us. Newsweek makes ten predictions for 2010, and at number 9, they predict the end of the road for Steve Ballmer at Microsoft. I never really thought about it that much, but if you line up Microsoft's failures over the past years, it's actually a miracle his head hasn't rolled yet.

Sharepoint can be marketed as a solution to problems that don't need to exist, and then it creates new work, and new [surface] problems, for which newer versions of MS software, both Sharepoint client and server software, integration software, and software that natively integrates with Sharepoint, can be marketed as reducing or solving.